Willow Hill School to celebrate anniversary

Celebration set for Saturday

Open-hearth cooking expert Clarissa Clifton, seen in this publicity photo, will give demonstrations of 19th century cooking at the Willow Hill site during Saturday's 140th anniversary celebration. - photo by Special

WillowHill-Clarissa Clifton Lynch — Open-hearth cooking expert Clarissa Clifton, seen in this publicity photo, will give demonstrations of 19th century cooking at the Willow Hill site during Saturday's 140th anniversary celebration. - photo by Special

The Willow Hill Heritage and Renaissance Center will celebrate the 140th anniversary of the Willow Hill School and 60th anniversary of the existing building with activities beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday. African-Americans nine years out of slavery founded a school for their children at the rural site near Portal in 1874. The current building dates from 1954, the year the Supreme Court in its Brown v.

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